Eyeleting-machine



(No Model.)

H. S. LYTLE. EYELETING MACHINE.

Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HARRY S. LYTLE, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, ASSIGNOR TO ALFRED H. BATOI'LELLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

EYELETING=MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,597, dated February12, 1.889. Application filed November 20, 1888' Serial No. 291,374- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY S. LYTLE, of North Brookfield, county of\Vorcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inEyeleting- Machines, of which the following description, in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representinglike parts.

This invention has for its object to provide an eycleting-machiue of thekind shown and described in United States Patent No. 272,382, granted toL. D. Hawkins February 13, 1883, with a delivery or conveying attachmentfor the eyelet-pieces removed from ,the material by the eyelet-punch.The eyeleting-machine referred to has an automatic feed besides otherautomaticidevices, and in practice the eyeletpieces, flyingpromiscuously, clog the machine so much as to greatly impair the feed aswell.

as other parts, and to enable the machine to accomplish the ends desiredfor it the eyeletpieces must be conveyed from the machine. The inventiontherefore consists in the combination, with the tubular eyelet-punch andmechanism for movingit, of a delivery or 0011- veying tube attached tothe upper end of said punch to convey the eyelet-pieces away from themachine, the delivery or conveying tube herein shown consisting of atube made of spirally-wound wire, the successive convolutions of thewire lying close to each other.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation an eyelet jug-machine of the kindreferred to, provided with a delivery-tube for the eyelet-pieces inaccordance with this invention; and Fig. 2, a vertical section of thetubular eyelet-punch and a portion of the delivery-tube sutlicient f toshow the point of attachment of the tube to the punch.

The tubular punch 0, its operating-lever c, pivoted at c to an arm, 0which is attached to a head, (I, extending sufficiently forward toprovide a bed for the punch c, the grooved cam f, mounted upon thedriving-shaft h, the vertical rod f, having its bearings in the mainframe-work a of the machine and connected at its upper end to the arm 0,are all as shown in the patent referred to, wherein similar letters ofreference indicate like parts.

To the upper end of the tubular punch c a delivery or conveying tube,e', is attached, to deliver or convey the eyelet-pieces punched from thematerial away from the machine to a convenient place. The deliverytubeis herein shown as made of wire wound spirally, the successiveoonvolutions lying so close to gether as to form a tube. This form oftube is very efficient, as the movement given to it eyelet-pieces aremoved freely along.

The tube 2 may be of any length desired, and may lead to a suitable boxor other receptacle, (not shown) which receives the eye let-pieces.

I claim In an eyeletingqnachine, the tubular eyelet-punch and mechanismfor moving it, combined with a delivery or conveying tube ofspirally-wound wire attached to and forming a continuation of thetubular eyelet-punch,

for delivering or conveying from the machine the eyelet-pieces punchedfrom the material, the vibration of the tube moving said eyeletpiecesfreely therethrough, substantially as described.

in testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two sub- 1 scribing witnesses.

HARRY S. LYTLE.

\Vitncsses:

BERNICE J. NoYEs, B. DEWAR.

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